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The regulations of the Academy of Music will not permit the distrih»«nn „ ACADEMY OF MUSIC . BROOKLYN Friday Evening, January 6, at 8.15 Under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arte and Sciences and the Philharmonic society ot .Brooklyn ^wmiiii/%/^ '^&»m % < Vs^, «», v*=* BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED FORTY-FIRST SEASON J92M922 PROGRH/HrtE m o°, x/Ac dominating idea r^ behind the manufacture of zu%nlchtim|tiniio is to wake ana main- taiviit as ike best piano tkat can he builtP &htzl$Mxom piano (fix. CINCINNATI CHICAGO NEW YORK INDIANAPOLIS ST. LOUIS LOUISVILLE . DENVER DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO ACADEMY OF MUSIC BROOKLYN FORTY-FIRST SEASON, 1921-1922 INCORPORATED PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INCORPORATED THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer ALFRED L. AIKEN FREDERICK E. LOWELL FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager — — 'CHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS the old house where Franz Liszt as Rubinstein, dePachmann, Joseffy ! Many INpassed his last years, still stands a young genius set fingers to a Steinway for his Steinway. Here the master of the first time in this house of Liszt's. Weimar played for the rulers of the earth And it is worthy of note that almost without who came to do him homage. And here, exception they, too, chose the Steinway too, played other masters of the piano just as Liszt had done before them, just as friends and disciples of Liszt's—men such the masters of today have done after them. 107-109 EAST 14th STREET NEW YORK Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE Forty-first Season, 1921-1922 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor PERSi Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A. Hamilton, V. Concert-master. Mahn, F. Krafft, W. Sauvlet, H. Theodorowicz, J. Gundersen, R. Pinfield, C. Fiedler, B. Berger, H. Kassman, N. Barozzi, S. Leveen, P. Siegl, F. Thillois, F. Gorodetzky, L. Kurth, R. Murray, J. Riedlinger, H. Goldstein, S. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C. Stonestreet, L. Deane, C. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Diamond, S. Tapley, R. Del Sordo, R. Messina, S. Violas. Fourel, G. Werner, H, Grover, H. Fiedler, A. ArtiSres, L. Van Wynbergen, C. Shirley, P. Mullaly, J. Gerhardt, S. Kluge, M. Welti, 0. Zahn, F. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Keller, J. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Langendoen, J Schroeder, A. Barth, C. Fabrizio, E. Stockbridge. C. Marjollet, L. Basses Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, Kelley, A. Girard, H. Keller, K. Gerhardt, G. Frankel, I Demetrides, L. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Longy, G. Sand, A. Laus, A. Brooke, A. Lenom, C. Arcieri, E. Mueller, E. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Vannini, A. Bettoney, F. Piccolo. English Horns. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Mueller, F. Mimart, P. Piller, B. Speyer, L. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Wendler, G. Van Den Berg, C. Mager, G. Hampe, C. Lorbeer, H. Hess, M. Mann, J. Adam, E. Hain, F. Perret, G. Mausebach, A. Gebhardt, W. Kloepfel, L. Kenfield, L. Tuba. Harps. Timpan:[. Percussion. Adam, E. Holy, A. Neumann, S. Rettberg, A Zahn, F. Delcourt, L. Kandler, F. Ludwig, C. Organ. Celesta Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. g Boston oymphony Orchestra VICTOR RECORDS There are dealers in Victor products everywhere and any of them will gladly play any of the Boston Symphony Orchestra records for you, Victrolas $25 to $1500 Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden NJ. 3*1 HIS MASTERS VOICE" ACADEMY OF MUSIC BROOKLYN Thirty-fourth season in Brooklyn Forty-first Season, 1921-1922 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor THIRD CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Franck . Symphony in D minor I. Lento: Allegro non troppo. II. Allegretto. III. Allegro non troppo. Svendsen "Carnival in Paris," Episode for Orchestra, Op. 9 Bach . Cantata for solo voice: "Begone, ye gloomy shadows" Mozart . Recitative and Rondo from the Opera "La Clemenza di Tito" Rimsky-Korsakoff . "Night on Mount Triglaff," Act III of the Opera Ballet "Mlada," arranged in concert form SOLOIST LOUISE HOMER There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 I Hawaiian Cruise through the Panama Canal From the North Atlantic through Tropical Seas to the fascinating Hawaiian Islands When our winter is at its worst you can sail through the balmy Caribbean—land of eternal spring—and call at gay Havana, at Porto Rico, at beautiful Jamaica, and at our new colonial purchase, quaint St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. You can sail through the great Panama Canal—the engineering wonder of our days; fol- low the shores of Mexico and California north- ward and visit Los Angeles and San Francisco, with the unusual experience of approaching San Francisco from the sea through the matchless Golden Gate. And you can sail across the wide Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands, for a week in this picturesque meeting place of East and West. Three cruises in one, on one great ship, the "Hawkeye State," (Matson Navigation Co.) Sailing February 11, 1922. Rates $750 and upward RAYMOND & WHITCOMB CO. 225 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, Madison Square, 6270 Winter tours to California and Hawaii, Florida, Cuba and Nassau, Europe, South America, Japan—China, Arabian Nights Africa, Egypt and the Holy Land, Round the World. A Cruise through the Mediterranean, sailing February 14. ¥Ss&Wt&7*SM+\M*\*sM I RAYMOND-WHITCOMB I TOURS & CRUISES .'*. H THE BEST in TRAVEL] Symphony in D minor, for Orchestra Cesar Franck (Born at Liege, Belgium, on December 10, 1822; died at Paris on November 8, 1890.) This symphony was produced at the Conservatory, Paris, Feb- ruary 17, 1889.* It was composed in 1888 and completed on August 22 of that year. The symphony, dedicated to Henri Duparc, is scored for two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, two cornets-a-piston, three trombones, bass tuba, a set of three kettledrums, harp, and strings. Vincent d'Indy in his Life of Franck f gives some particulars about the first performance of the Symphony in D minor. "The performance was quite against the wish of most members of the famous orchestra, and was only pushed through thanks to the benevolent obstinacy of the conductor, Jules Garcin. The subscribers could make neither head nor tail of it, and the musical authorities were much in the same position. I inquired of one of them—a professor at the Conservatoire, and a kind of factotum on the committee—what he thought of the work. 'That, a symphony?' he replied in contemptuous tones. 'But, my dear sir, who ever heard of writing for the English horn in a symphony? Just mention a single symphony by Haydn or Beethoven introducing the English horn. There, well, you see—your Franck's music may be whatever you please, but it will certainly never be a symphony V This was the attitude of the Conservatoire in the year of grace 1889. "At another door of the concert hall, the composer of 'Faust' es- corted by a train of adulators, male and female, fulminated a kind of papal decree to the effect that this symphony was the affirmation of incompetence pushed to dogmatic lengths. For sincerity and dis- interestedness we must turn to the composer himself, when, on his *Franck wrote a symphony for orchestra and chorus, "PsycheY' text by Sicard and Fourcaud, which was composed in 1887 and produced at a concert of the National Society, March 10, 1888. He also wrote in his earlier years a symphony, "The Sermon on the Mount," after the manner ol Liszt's symphonic poems. The manuscript exists, but the work was never published. t Translated by Mrs. Newmarch. 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Carl Siewers states in his biographical sketch of Svendsen that the piece was written at Bayreuth soon after Wagner had made that town his dwelling-place. It was in 1871 (January 12) that Svendsen's sym- phony in D was performed at a Gewandhaus concert in Leipsic. "He composed in that year his concerto for violoncello in D. In the autumn he went to America to be married to an American lady, whom he had met in Paris, and returned the same year to Leipsic, where, after the end of the war, he undertook the leadership of the Euterpe concerts for one year. There he finished the overture to 'Sigurd Slembe,' which was played at the Euterpe then, and in the following year at the musical festival at Cassel, where Liszt was present, and both times with great success.